By Naomi Ishisaka
(SEATTLE TIIMES) Before the latest crisis in Afghanistan, Auburn’s Navid Hamidi said the “sky was the limit” for the generation who grew up after the Taliban was ousted in 2001, but he said now “those hopes are dead.”
Hamidi, the executive director and co-founder of the Kent-based Afghan Health Initiative, which supports the health and education of the local Afghan community, said last week that the dreams and aspirations of Afghanistan’s people were in jeopardy after the withdrawal of U.S. forces, the rapid fall of the Afghan government and the resurgence of the Taliban.
Women, in particular, he said, “will lose everything that they were able to do in the past 20 years.”
Hamidi, 32, experienced the terror of Taliban rule. As a child in the late ’90s in Kabul, Hamidi was too young to fully comprehend the political currents around him but was old enough to remember the brutality.
Before the latest crisis in Afghanistan, Auburn’s Navid Hamidi said the “sky was the limit” for the generation who grew up after the Taliban was ousted in 2001, but he said now “those hopes are dead.”
Hamidi, the executive director and co-founder of the Kent-based Afghan Health Initiative, which supports the health and education of the local Afghan community, said last week that the dreams and aspirations of Afghanistan’s people were in jeopardy after the withdrawal of U.S. forces, the rapid fall of the Afghan government and the resurgence of the Taliban.
Women, in particular, he said, “will lose everything that they were able to do in the past 20 years.”
Hamidi, 32, experienced the terror of Taliban rule. As a child in the late ’90s in Kabul, Hamidi was too young to fully comprehend the political currents around him but was old enough to remember the brutality.
